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Four men from Connecticut and Vermont are facing multiple drug and property-related charges after Vermont State Police stopped a stolen vehicle Tuesday morning on the Exit 6 off ramp of Interstate 91.
According to state police, troopers with the Westminster Barracks spotted a northbound vehicle near mile marker 24.2 at about 10 AM on Nov. 4. After learning the vehicle had been reported stolen, troopers pulled it over at mile marker 35 near the Rockingham exit.
An investigation revealed that the occupants (see above, left to right) — Derrick Wooding, 46, of East Hartford, Conn.; Zakee Habeeb-Ullah, 47, also of East Hartford; Stephen Davidson, 34, of Middletown, Conn.; and Michael Hayes, 63, of St. Johnsbury — were in possession of fentanyl and cocaine, police said.
Davidson was driving the stolen vehicle, while Wooding was the authorized renter who failed to return it to the rental company, according to troopers. All four were cited for trafficking fentanyl, transporting fentanyl, fentanyl possession, trafficking cocaine, cocaine possession, theft of rental property, possession of stolen property, and operating without the owner’s consent.
The men were ordered lodged at Southern State Correctional Facility ahead of their scheduled appearance in Vermont Superior Court, Windham Criminal Division, set for 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 5. Police said bail was set at $10,000, except for Hayes, whose bail was $5,000.
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Now, if you are the oldest of the gang and a Vermonter you get a fifty percent discount on the bail.
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Take all 4 Merchants of Death to the Train Station.
A la Yellowstone?!
Imagine that. 3 of them are from Connecticut where the drugs often originate.
Most criminals might be caught if the set up random road blocks on Rt &, I-93, I-91 & I-89 at the southern districts. The states,not NH that buy booze and goods in cheaper VT & NH stores in earlier years did have to go through road blocks in MA & NY. Also a road block was sit up at the rest stop on I-91 south below WRJ. They had powerful lights as well and many involved.
People aren’t knocking down the door to sign up to be police officers… imagine that, so not enough manpower to pull that off.
Perhaps only one of them knew the car was stolen and on the hotsheets, putting the whole trip in jeopardy. That guy wont be very popular with the upper echelon of the organization, and there could be consequences. Otherwise, they have little to fear in the way of consequences from the Vermont criminal justice system.
I have been explaining to Vermonters for years that drug trafficking is a lucrative business that doesn’t care about race (well except that gangs move most of the fentanyl in the US, and 90% of gangs are comprised of “people of color,” but to say so is racist, while complaining that statistics show people of color are poor is hailed as equity and woke.)
I moved to East Hartford, CT at age 12 and graduated from High School in East Hartford. I was later a special public defender in CT, where I represented dozens of alleged cocaine and heroin dealers. Most of them were affiliated with gangs. I was not racist in my representations. Indeed, I worked essentially pro bono out of a sense of obligation. I grew up “on the street,” and it was a miracle I managed to climb out of that gutter and graduate cum laude from UConn Law.
Given my experiences, and the routine news stories of narcotics being trafficked into VT from Springfield, MA. Philly, Chicago, NY, and yes, CT, I similarly feel it is my civic duty to call out the woke numbskulls who claim our VT police are racist for arresting “people of color” while ignoring whether they are actually guilty. Yes, white people move drugs too (as seen here). But the demographics of the drug trafficking business have nothing to do with the motives of good cops. To slander honest police for arresting people based on race when they are arresting based on evidence and facts, is a disgraceful crime of its own. It also puts Vermonters at risk by racializing something without merit. It is a racist trope of progressives, encouraging gang activity in the Green Mountains — gangs laugh at the irony, I assure you.
MLK, Jr. said America should judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. The woke cult of race politics is patently racist and turns MLK Jr’s entire life’s work upside down in the name of equity, perverting justice and inflaming racist tensions. Is that the plan, or are these people merely ignorant, like white supremacists?
I thank our troopers for interdicting this trafficking of deadly drugs. Merit, not race.
There are groups of people out there making a lot of money pushing terror among the public saying that there is a white supremacist or kkk member hiding behind every spruce tree. Just send them a donation.